The Heathkit Solid-State Radiotelescope (model RT-44) I built in my backyard, which intercepted the message from Planet Yobbo in 2005. This is one of the last new kits Heathkit sold before some big mega-corporation hosed them up and flushed them down the toilet.I've got editing and commo control over my original Vleeptron blog again! Hoorah!
So anyway, just received these 2 Comments from the linkless, anonymous driveby sentient who goes by the nick Anonymous. Apparently, if I am grokking this piece of marginal illiteracy right, he/she/it got infected by a worm or a virus called kdxyw.exe, and as he/she/it Googled to track down this malware, ended up on Vleeptron, because KDXYW is one of the cyphertext groups.
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Anonymous said...
what a f++ck is a kdxyw.exe
trojan remover found first kdcps.exe then after it had renamed it into kdcps.exe.ren I renamed it again in its original name and tried to run it , and it just disappeared .After I run the trojan remover again it found on the same place in registry kdxwy.exe but there is no kdxyw.exe in system32 folder like there was kdcps.exe . Then I google for these two it can`t find anything unless if I search without extensions . Without .exes it found this blog and bunch of other shit in Japanese or chinese , whatever it is .
What a fuck is this .
03:27
Anonymous said...
Shit from Black hole called Ass hole 123415-fsgds-theh462
03:29
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I replied:
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Vleeptron Dude said...
Hey Anonymous -- It's a CODE! If you really need help, it's a Simple Substitution Code.
For example, every time my cyphertext says G, the decoded plaintext will say R. (That's just an example of how this thing works, it's probably not the right pair.)
Good grief, this post is so old I've forgotten what the original plaintext is, and I'll have to solve it from scratch to see if anybody's guess is right.
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Ah hell, here's the original Intercept from Yobbo again.
And here's a clue. The plaintext is in ENGLISH. (Because that's the only lingo I'm fluent in.)
And here's another clue: Edgar Allan Poe.
So won't somebody Decode this Simplest Of All Kinds of Code? And save me the trouble of decoding a code that I encoded myself in 2005?
Where's RamanuJohn when you need him?
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12 October 2005
intercept from Planet Yobbo
IEGAV VBKWA DFYYZ XWFBZ FYYOW OVUNV SGDVA WSXHW KXYYD FHWYW SGGDW WFUGD FBZKW VEUAW YHWAA DFYYI WYVHW ZSVUF KDXYW FBZSV UQVGG WBIEG GDWYV HWKXY YDFHW IWWBW BVEQD FYYGD VAWXO CEYAW AVSYV HWUWG EUBGV GDWYV HWGDF GOFZW GDWOW HWBOW OVUNX ABVGB WTWAA FUNSV UYVHW GDWUW XAFYF BZVSG DWYXH XBQFB ZFYFB ZVSGD WZWFZ FBZGD WIUXZ QWXAY VHWGD WVBYN AEUHX HFYGD WVBYN OWFBX BQGDV UBGVB KXYZW UGDWI UXZQW VSAFB YEXAU WN
Come on, you can do this. You're smart.
Or, alternatively:
If you can't do this,
you're Not Smart.
you're Not Smart.
4 comments:
Hey Hey Mike Mike --
I think decoding this code can be done with just pencil (and eraser) and paper (a lot of it), and a human brain that can tolerate a reasonable volume of Frustration.
But I encoded it with a pretty simple, straightforward BASIC proggie, and a proggie would also decrease the frustration by about 40 percent, I think.
The main annoying problem that makes this harder than the NY Times Sunday Magazine Double Crostic is that the Double Crostic (cryptogram) shows you the lengths of words, like
*** ** ******** ** *****
but the coded Intercept from Yobbo is arranged in very unhelpful groups of 5 letters.
(This is actually how radio intercepts sent via the Enigma code machine from the German military would have looked to the Brit codebreakers at Bletchley Park -- no hints from word lengths.)
I tossed out the hint that the plaintext is a passage in English. And that is a very important hint for a code-breaker. Match that to the other hint -- Edgar Allan Poe -- and you should stumble on the first and most important strategic tool to decode the Yobbo message.
i.e., Edgar Allan Poe is NOT the author of this message.
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DANKE fur das Translation! Suddenly I get the Lordi joke! And it's FUNNY!
eeer...isnt there something with a code in a EAP story that has not been cracked yet ? I think it is called The Golden Beetle....but as usual I could be wrong...
On the Kopf you have hit the Nagel!
beetle is close translation, the original title is The Gold Bug.
and this is the hint's Arrow to point the army of codebreakers toward a prompt deciphering of the Intercept from Yobbo.
But also Googling about EAP's accomplishments OTHER THAN literature, this will also guide you toward the tools you will need for a Solution.
Never mind the horror stories and the weird fantasies and the invention of the detective story ("Tales of Ratiocination"). Never mind the tintinabulation of the bells and Lenore and that dumb crow banging on the door at midnight.
This guy was SMART!
OK, I just want to start off by saying, this was NOT easy. I may be just stupid, but NOT EASY. HUGE TIME SINK. That being said, here it is, for all to see:
CYPHER:ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
PLAIN :SN HUATVB W YM G FCROEILD
Blank spaces indicate letters that were not used, so they really can't be determined. So, after the decode:
butso onwes halld ieand allme moryo fthos efive willh avele ftthe earth
andwe ourse lvess hallb elove dfora while andfo rgott enbut thelo vewil
lhave beene nough allth oseim ulse soflo veret urnto thelo vetha tmade
theme venme moryi snotn ecess aryfo rlove there isala ndoft heliv ingan
dalan dofth edead andth ebrid geisl oveth eonly survi valth eonly meani
ngtho rnton wilde rtheb ridge ofsan luisr ey
Spacing and punctuation later:
But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
-- Thornton Wilder,
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
God I hope that's right, because if it's not, there's a million monkeys somewhere screeming in agony.
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